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by cpach 898 days ago
What are your goals?

Is it more important to have a job where you encounter technical challenges and/or make a big difference, or is it more important to have a comfy job with a good salary? The latter can sometimes give more freedom in other areas. E.g. if you need that salary for buying a nice home, saving up for the kid’s college funds, funding your hobbies, supporting charities etc etc.

Also, if you haven’t already seen it I can warmly recommend this article by Julia Evans – “Some possible career goals”. It can be very useful when trying to articulate for oneself what one’s goals are.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/30/some-possible-career-goals/

HTH!

1 comments

Yeah, that's something to think about. Thanks.